People are seeing it as a way to get efficient push notifications in an open, decentralized system. That's pretty much it. Because there isn't really any poss

People are seeing it as a way to get efficient push notifications in an open, decentralized system. That's pretty much it. Because there isn't really any possible alternative except something that looks like this. GCM/APNS/ETC do not fit those requirements, so it needs to be something new.